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Coral vs Paddock - What's the difference?

coral | paddock |

As a proper noun coral

is .

As a noun paddock is

(archaic except in dialects) a frog or toad or paddock can be a small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.

As a verb paddock is

to provide with a paddock to keep in, or place in, a paddock.

coral

English

(wikipedia coral)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
  • (countable) A colony of marine polyps.
  • (countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
  • The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
  • (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of coral.
  • Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
  • Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * coralise/coralize * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    See also

    * atoll * barrier reef * dactylozooid * fringing reef * gonophore * gorgonian * Great Barrier Reef * madrepore * millepore * sea fan * sea whip *

    Anagrams

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    paddock

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) paddok, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic except in dialects) A frog or toad.
  • * Wycliffe
  • Soothly if thou wilt not deliver, lo! I shall smite all thy terms with paddocks . (Exodus 8:2)
  • * Spenser
  • The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Paddock calls (Macbeth 1.1.10)
    Derived terms
    * paddock pipe * paddock stone * paddock stool

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of (etyl) parrok, . Related to (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.
  • *
  • the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.
  • An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
  • Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.
  • (motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
  • Derived terms
    * heifer paddock * long paddock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide with a paddock. To keep in, or place in, a paddock.
  • English words suffixed with -ock ----